The Death`s Head Chess Club

€ 12.95

An intelligent novel exploring the difficulties of guilt and forgiveness in an impossible friendship between a Nazi and a Jew. Wounded SS Obersturmfuhrer Paul Meissner is posted to Auschwitz to improve flagging camp morale, and soon sets up a thriving chess club among the officers. When Meissner hears that chess is also played by the prisoners, including an `unbeatable` Jewish watchmaker, he sets out to discover behind this rumour. What he finds will haunt him to his death... Now in paperback, this will appeal to readers of John Boyne`s }The Boy In Striped Pyjamas{ and Bernhard Schlink`s }The Reader{